White Spider Indoor Climbing

May 27th Bank Holiday, Sky-Lights and System Boards

staff — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:14:34 +0000

We are open from 10am – 7.30pm this Bank Holiday Monday, May 27th, to satisfy all your climbing cravings!

Come and see our new roof skylight and tell us what you think!

There will also be a selection of new routes put up by James G for you to enjoy, and rumour has it, one or two new stalactites to be installed, too!

We also have a new Systems Board in place, adjacent to our infamous cave bouldering area, along with a selection of 'Make Your Own Problem' pages, which can be found towards the bottom left of the board.

Simply put a circle around the handholds on the page, and put a square around the footholds to create your own boulder problems.

Summer Half-Term activities at White Spider

staff — Sun, 12 May 2013 17:16:02 +0000

Half term is coming up, and from Monday 20th May – Sunday 2nd June White Spider will be running a whole host of different sessions, every single day:

To enquire or to book any half-term activity, call us today on 0208 397 0390.

The Web A daily climbing techniques workshop, providing 90 minutes of quality technical instruction from some of the best climbing coaches in the south.

The Web is perfectly suited towards any of our current Kids’ Club members, to hone and progress their spider climbing skills.

If you’re enrolled on our NICAS courses, then don’t miss the opportunity to learn how to fast-forward your climbing development with instructors Tom and Andy.

They will start you off on simple, but vital techniques lying at the foundation of climbing. Bridging? Smearing? You'll be shown the essentials. From there, you will apply what you’ve learnt to the walls, before progressing on to more complex moves.

By the end of the session, expect to have a whole new range of moves to utilise throughout the rest of the Summer term.

The Web is 1.5 hours in duration, for 7-17 year olds.
Workshops will be held: Monday – Friday at 10am and 2pm
Saturday and Sunday at 10am only.
£15 per head

Tasters – we are also hosting a whole range of taster sessions for the newbie climbers amongst you.

If you’ve never tried climbing before, or think your kids would like to give it a go, then our taster sessions are the place to start:

Tiny Tarantulas | 5-6 years | 1 hour | £12.50 per child
1 Instructor : 4 Children
Spider Monkeys | 7-17 years | 1.5 hours | £12.50 per person
1 Instructor : 6 Children

Want to try climbing as a family?

A mix of adults and children together, Family Taster sessions are the ideal choice if you want to give indoor climbing a go and see your folks climb the ropes!

Family Taster | £12.50 per child | £18.50 per adult | 1.5 hours
1 Instructor : 6 people

All of our coaching sessions at White Spider must be pre-booked. To book your half-term activity, call us today on 0208 397 0390.

New Stalactite Roof at White Spider Climbing

admin — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:46:05 +0000

Rumours of a Stalactite Roof…?

… are true! We start build today on a new 50m2 stal roof, to go between the existing roof and the courtyard. It will offer some great new routes, 15-19m in length. There will be 7 stals, from 1-3m long, plus a hanging slab. Some routes will stitch together across the stals, offering some respite from gravity. No doubt our route setters will also manage some fiendishly hard roof climbing.

Build is going to take 3 weeks, during which time lines 25-39 and the slackline will not be available, however all the rest of the centre will be open as usual. In the meantime, check out this video in our gallery for a sense of what it will be like:

New Stal Roof – coming to White Spider at the end of May 2013

Cheers, The White Spider Team.

Another busy week setting…

admin — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:52:21 +0000

It's been a busy week of re-setting here at White Spider. On Monday we had Yann re-set the training board

and our own Stew re-set lines 1 and 2. Then on Wednesday we had Mat re-set lines 19 and 68. Lot's to keep you going.

Cheers, the White Spider Climbing Team

New routes set by Liam

admin — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:35:37 +0000

Liam 'suns out guns out' Halsey setting some new routes for all you lucky climbers out there… Happy days!!

Cheers, the White Spider Team

Happy St George’s Day!

admin — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:52:14 +0000

It's a beautiful day here, the rich aroma of our freshly ground "Rave" coffee, a tempting array of delicious cakes, the sunshine streaming through to the White Spider crag, over 250 routes and 120 boulder problems to blitz.

Come on down and have a climb on this glorious English day!

Cheers,

the White Spider Climbing Team

Roof setting by Yann and Gaz

admin — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:28:22 +0000

New roof set today by Yann and Gaz on 11th April. And Stew is setting new lines on Monday 15th.

Come down and get your grunt on!

Cheers, The White Spider Team

Easter Opening, 2013

admin — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:07:38 +0000

We are open as usual over Easter, so come and enjoy some great family fun and time at White Spider. Or for our hardcore regulars why not come and burn off all that extra cocoa – might help you blitz yer project!

Fri 29th March: 10am till 10pm
Sat 30th March: 10am till 7.30pm
Sun 31st March: 10am till 7.30pm
Mon 1st April: 2pm till 10pm

We are also running a full set of Holiday Kids' Clubs, see our What's On page for details.

Cheers, The White Spider Team

Marmot Night with Steve McClure

admin — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:22:15 +0000

We are holding a Marmot night here at White Spider Climbing. We will have Marmot sponsored athlete Steve McClure will be here at White Spider.

Turn up and recieve a raffle ticket on the door, 6 tickets will be drawn for a coaching session with Steve at 7pm.

But even if you're not a winner you can try Steve's new routes set that day then stick around for a free talk and presentation by the man himself.

We look forward to seeing you then.

Cheers,

The White Spider Team

Mother’s Day – a BIG Thank You!

admin — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:00:01 +0000

A BIG THANK YOU to all the mums and everyone else who climbed at White Spider on Mothers Day in support of AMREF's "Stand up for African Mothers campaign".

We had a great day and made a donation of £760 to AMREF.

THANK YOU!